Once upon a time, now long ago, I traded the precious metals markets – concentrating on Silver more often than not. The reason I chose silver was fundamental – not technical. Silver and gold had historically traded at a price ratio of about 16 to 1, gold to silver. Then that price […]

The markets I trade have been really tough today – unusually hard to predict the next move. That left me time to think about a lot of things – and that can lead to anything from euphoria to melancholy – depending on the particular tangent I tend to take at the time.

World economic conditions are tenuous – and that is an optimistic statement. Actually, the economies of the so-called ”developed nations” of the world are trudging along, gasping for breath with each step in an effort to generate even meager growth. And debt is a continuing onerous problem.

The answer should be “Yes”. And I have to fight human nature to give the correct answer – which is ‘No”. Human nature seems to make us want to say things that are not always true. I have often pondered this – […]